Visiting a traditional Cambodian market is a must do experience and a journey into the wonderful world of fresh produce.
The range and diversity are immense and many of Cambodia’s leafy vegetables could perhaps make the grade for superfoods with one example being the Moringa plant. to common vegetables, with Khmer/English, that you’ll find at Cambodian markets including native produce, introduced species, and imports, along with a few herbs and spice.Vegetable is an edible part of a plant such as a root, stem, leaf, flower, or seed that people eat a plant or plant part used in savory or non sweet dishes.
Morning glory, Chinese Spinach
This plant is as water spinach, river spinach, water morning glory, water convolvulus, or by the more ambiguous names Chinese spinach, Chinese Watercress, Chinese convolvulus, swamp cabbage or kangkong in Southeast Asia. It can used in place of regular spinach and it is high in vitamin A, C, Iron and Magnesium along with trace amounts of several vitamins and minerals.
Bok choy
Bok choy is a type of Chinese cabbage. There are several types yet the most common I see is the green type similar to Mei Qing Choi variety. Alleged benefits: Chinese cabbage is a rich source of vitamin A, vitamin C and vitamin K, while providing folate, vitamin B6 and calcium in moderate amounts.
Frisee lettuce
Endive is a leaf vegetable belonging to the genus Cichorium, which includes several similar, bitter, leafed vegetables. Species include Cichorium endivia (also called endive), Cichorium pumilum (also called wild endive), and Cichorium intybus (also called common chicory). Common chicory includes types such as radicchio, puntarella, and Belgian endive.
Broccoli
Broccoli is an edible green plant in the cabbage family Brassicas whose large flowering head and stalk is eaten as a vegetable.
Hot basil leave
commonly known as hotbasil, or Mras Phrov , is an aromatic perennial plant in the family Lamiaceae. It is native to the Indian subcontinent and widespread as a cultivated plant throughout the Southeast Asian tropics. The variety of Ocimum tenuiflorum used in cuisine is referred to as holy basil, it is not to be confused with Hot basil, which is a variety of Ocimum basilicum.
long bean
The asparagus bean is a legume cultivated for its edible green pods containing immature seeds, like the green bean. It is also known as the yardlong bean, long-podded cowpea, Chinese long bean, bodi/bora,snake bean, or pea bean.
Lemongrass
Cymbopogon, better known as lemongrass, is a genus of Asian, African, Australian, and tropical island plants in the grass family. Some species (particularly Cymbopogon citratus) are commonly cultivated as culinary and medicinal herbs because of their scent, resembling that of lemons (Citrus limon).
Galangal
The word galangal, or its variant galanga, can refer in common usage to the aromatic rhizome of any of four plant species in the Zingiberaceae (ginger) family.
Chinese ginger
Boesenbergia rotunda, commonly known as Chinese keys, fingerroot, lesser galangal or Chinese ginger, is a medicinal and culinary herb from China and Southeast Asia. In English, the root has traditionally been called fingerroot, because the shape of the rhizome resembles that of fingers growing out of a center piece.
Turmeric
Turmeric is a flowering plant, Curcuma longa of the ginger family, Zingiberaceae, the roots of which are used in cooking. The plant is a perennial, rhizomatous, herbaceous plant native to the Indian subcontinent and Southeast Asia.
Bottle gourd
A calabash, bottle gourd, or white-flowered gourd, Lagenaria siceraria, also known by many other names, including long melon, New Guinea bean and Tasmania bean, is a vine grown for its fruit, which can be either harvested young to be consumed as a vegetable, or harvested mature to be dried and used as a utensil. When it is fresh, the fruit has a light green smooth skin and white flesh.
Eggplant
It is also known as turkey berry , prickly nightshade, shoo-shoo bush, wild eggplant, pea eggplant, pea aubergine, The green fresh fruits are edible and used in Thai cuisine, as an ingredient in certain Thai curries or raw in certain chili pastes (nam phrik).
Tamarind
The tamarind tree produces pod-like fruit that contains an edible pulp used in cuisines around the world. Other uses of the pulp include traditional medicine and metal polish.
Straw mushrooms
Volvariella volvacea (also known as paddy straw mushroom or straw mushroom) is a species of edible mushroom cultivated throughout East and Southeast Asia and used extensively in Asian cuisines.
Banana flower
Banana hearts are used as a vegetable in South Asian and Southeast Asian cuisine, either raw or steamed with dips or cooked in soups, curries and fried foods. The flavor resembles that of artichoke. As with artichokes, both the fleshy part of the bracts and the heart are edible.Examples include carrots roots, broccoli flowers , and spinach leaves , Some foods like tomatoes and cucumbers are scientifically fruits because they contain seeds, but people treat and cook them as vegetables, Any member of the plant kingdom, or anything made from or relating to plants. Broccoli ,Red bell pepper , Cauliflower , Onions , shallots.
Limes ,Cucumbers , tomato, Carrot ,Pineapples, Banana blossom
Leafy greens and long green beans.
